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"…You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you...I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle…”~ General Eisenhower, just before the D-Day InvasionOperation Overlord, 06 June 1944Today marks the 69th Aniversary of Operation Overlord, aka "D-Day", the date…See More

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Twit Publishing announces long awaited release of Dieselpunk, an Anthology!Eight exciting tales of Dieselpunk adventure and intrigue!New and exciting worlds that never were (but should have been)!In planning for the last year and featuring…See More

Found this website on the Paleofuture Blog, a site that put together sound files of "sounds of the street" in the Roaring Twenties. While many sites give us photos or video of the period, this one is perhaps the first to give us the sounds.Behold, The Roaring Twenties, an Interactive exploration of the historical soundscape of New York City…See More

Roanoke, Virginia, based photographic artist Andy Silvers is a growing internet phenomenon whose combination of photography and digital graphic design has taken the mediums in new and exciting directions. His ecclectic mix of visual storytelling, eroticism, horror, glamor, fashion, and pop culture is gaining a growing following among afficionadoes of pulp, pin up art, burlesque, gothic culture, tattoo culture, rockabilly, and, yes, Dieselpunk and Steampunk. His work has appeared in many…See More

It's time to bring a Diesel Era Streamline Masterpiece back to life!!The Norfolk & Western J-class Streamline Locomotive #611 is a rare masterpiece of late steam-power and streamline design. Kept alive for tour excursions up to the mid 1990's, she's been in storage or static display ever since [image from locomotive.wikia.com].But there's a campaign to get her up and running again […See More

I just got alerted to this book by an artist friend doing artwork for it:The City of Smoke and Mirrors - an Armadillo Mystery (Nick C. Piers - 2012)It appears to be a camp pulp noir adventure featuring a hard boiled detective...who happens to be an anthropomorphic armadillo. The blurb available for prieview…See More

Up in the Heavens, daring Devils bring Hell to Earth! On and under the Seas Men of Iron in Ships of Steel duel for supremacy of the seas. Yes, those Gallant Knights of the Air in their Incredible Flying Aeroplanes! The glory! The romance! The excitement! Oh, and the old "die horribly in a fiery plummet after ripping apart near-defenceless footmen" part of the…See More

War is Hell...why not find a way to dig in faster?It's a year into this horrible war, this Great War, and we're going nowhere fast. The western and eastern fronts have stabilized with no significant progress. Even the Italians joining the Entente have merely created a third static front. All sides have dug in, creating elaborate, labrinthine…See More

WAR!!The kerfluffle over the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand has set Europe aflame! Will this madness spread to the entire world?[from peterboroughimages.co.uk]What a mess! To attempt to summarize this amazing cluster of alliances and enmities that are happening here, Austria declared war on Serbia, so Russia declared war on Austria, so Germany declared war on Russia, so…See More

"What keeps you up nights, Mr. Dillinger?""Coffee."In honor of the late Roger Ebert, who recently passed away, I'm presenting my latest Diesel Movie Review. R.I.P, Mr. Ebert!The midwest, 1930s. The Great Depression is at its worst, people are desperate, poverty is rampant, and crime is at an all-time high. The fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to establish…See More

The Flickers, the Silver Screen, the Moving Pictures...call them what you will, I call them GOLD![image from solarnavigator.net]Yes, the Motion Pictures Industry is coming into its own thanks to amazing new directors, stars, and actors with a keen new eye on what's possible. Folks in faraway places like Southern California and Paris and Berlin are experimenting with the…See More

Sometimes the greatest act of patriotism is to take down the very regime you serve. So thought Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, the youngest of the Wehrmacht plotters who swore to take down Hitler and his rotten Nazi regime.Born to a noble old Prussian military family, von Kleist was as Old Skool as they came, with the rigid Prussian military bearing and a deep-set devotion to the Fatherland.…See More

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He was the last of his kind, one of the 29 original US Marine Corps "Code Talkers" of the Navajo Nation. As a child, the teachers at his government-run boarding school tried to force him to give up his native tongue, a hellaciously complex mess of tenses and verbs without many adjectives. In WW2, he and his brothers would ironically use that very language to help the United States liberate the Pacific.…